Trust in the Truth

Today’s Reading: Matthew 16:1-12

Here we go again with all this doubt. These disciples are now discussing how they forgot to take bread with them on the boat and are now wondering what to do. Really? These same disciples that just witnessed Jesus feeding over 5000 people and they are wondering about bread for themselves? With their forgetfulness Jesus is once again teaching them something more. He is trying to say the least of your worries should be forgetting bread---I am trying to tell you to be careful about what you hear. He compares the teachings of the Pharisees and Sadducees to that of yeast. When I think of yeast, I think of two things, fungus and growth. What ever we read or listen to filtrates our minds, the more we hear something the more it is ingrained within our mind and heart. That is why it is extremely important to read and hear the right things. However, the only way we will know the truth, the only way that we will be able to discern the truth of what we hear is by knowing God’s Word. The Pharisees and Sadducees wanted a miraculous sign from Jesus, but would they have even been satisfied with one? I don’t think so, but what Jesus is saying is you have to believe me for who I am. Jesus does not have to prove who he is to anyone. Just like the Sadducees and Pharisees, there are people today that teach the wrong message and so many times we are like the disciples we don’t see the real picture. So many times I am concerned about things that are really irrelevant to my walk with Christ and because of this I sometimes miss the message that Jesus is trying to show me. The devil does work in mysterious ways and will try his best to get you focused on anything but Jesus. He knows his tricks won’t work if we have our mind set on Jesus, so he will use anything in our life to make us turn our eyes away. I know that I keep saying this but we have to understand that Satan will use anything, it may seem like something harmless, it doesn’t have to be anything bad---it doesn’t matter to him, anything and everything that will get our mind off Christ will work for him. We have to put our trust in Jesus, he is called our Savior for a reason---he is the one and only that will save us from hell. He is the truth, the way, and in whom I put all my trust!